دخان

Meaning

1. smoke
2. steam
3. tobacco
4. (obsolete) evil, mischief
5. (obsolete) dearth, drought, sterility, unfruitfulness, hunger

Concepts

smoke

fumes

tobacco

smokes

smoking

🚬

baccy

enumerated articles

excise tax

fume

Word of Wisdom

Synonyms

تبغ

Translations

fumée

humo

Rauch

fumo

καπνός

fumo

rook

duman

fum

fumus

dûxan

fumaça

dûkêl

tütün

Pronounced as (IPA)

/du.xaːn/

Etymology

Attested since 475 CE, according to the Doha Dictionary.
Has been hypothesized to be borrowed from Middle Persian *dūd xān or *dūd xānag continued in Dari دود خانه (dūd-xāna, “smoke-room, the compartment of a house below a chimney; family, house, = دودمان (dūdmān)”).